Testimonies of Healing

When a child I was severely injured by being thrown from a horse. From that time on, for nine years, I was never free from severe pain, and was confined to my bed part of the time each year.

In  February, 1902, I made application for life insurance. , and in due course of time was obliged to submit to a physical examination by the medical representative of the insurance company, with the result that an adverse report was made on my application, on the ground that there was a diseased condition of the kidneys.

I should like to express in some measure my great gratitude for Christian Science and all that it has done for me, physically, mentally, and morally. I have been a student of Christian Science for four years, and they have been the happiest and most profitable years of my life.

It is over three years since I first heard of Christian Science and began to study it. For several years prior to that time I had been in a constant state of wretchedness and ill health, with various physical disorders and a mental state that bordered on melancholia, until it seemed that existence was made up of little else than pain, discord, perplexity, aimlessness, and endless disappointments,—in fact a miserable failure.

In January, 1904, Christian Science came to my home at the advice of a friend from Chicago who is a Scientist. At that time a sister who had been an invalid for twenty years was visiting me.

For twenty years I was a sufferer from catarrhal, bowel, and rheumatic trouble. Through almost constant treatment by my husband, who was an allopathic physician, and two specialists, I would get partial, temporary relief.

Fourteen years ago I was stricken down with a disease which twelve different physicians called incurable. I was treated by six of them (residents of this city), from three months to a year and a half each, with no beneficial results, indeed I was gradually growing worse all the time.

When I was child seven years old a most serious attack of fever was followed by a supposedly contagious disease, and this by a condition of the entire body so serious that for many months I was helpless. From this I so far recovered as to be able to attend school for several years, but was sickly and suffering most of the time.

From my earliest recollections I was well and happy; not a wave of trouble ever passed over my mortal sense of life till I reached the age of thirteen years. About this time I was suddenly snatched from the tender care of kind parents, from my brother and sister, taken away from all trace of civilization and plunged into an Indian camp, a helpless captive among savages in whom no element of the cruel and revolting seemed lacking.

Sixteen years ago I was a physical wreck, being afflicted with the severest forms of disease, the heart, lungs, and stomach being involved, and there was said to be an internal growth. I had been treated during three years by several of the best physicians of Harrisburg.